Good morning! Of course I have to immediately think of what a 12 year old boy would think. I read an article that talks about AI generative art and how some people think this will turn into the "next big thing" in the NFT world. Read along with me and see if you agree.

Sources:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/ai-generative-art-predicted-to-be-next-trend-for-nft-sector https://www.eponym.art-ai.com/

https://art-ai.com/

https://opensea.io/collection/eponym

Good morning! I spend this morning talking mostly about Coinbase. I start with an overview of Coinbase and the difference between Coinbase exchange, Coinbase PRO and Coinbase Wallet. Then I get into an article I found that was retweeted by Jack Dorsey that talks about how the VC-backed coins that get listed on Coinbase have actually performed terribly against Bitcoin and Ethereum. Many people think a project has "made it" when it gets listed on Coinbase, but the author seems to prove that this is not the case. Anyway, alot of people say web 3.0 is for giving "the little man" a chance, but it actually is seeming to cause problems for the liquidity of Bitcoin, as the amount of little men that web 3.0 is actually freeing is pretty insignificant. Interesting thesis. Sorry it took a really long time to get to the point in this video

Sources:

https://startupsandecon.substack.com/p/you-dont-own-web3-a-coinbase-curse

https://www.coinbase.com/

https://blog.coinbase.com/goodbye-toshi-hello-coinbase-wallet-the-easiest-and-most-secure-crypto-wallet-and-browser-4ba6e52e4913

https://pro.coinbase.com/ https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-Coinbase-and-Coinbase-wallet

https://www.investopedia.com/crypto-com-vs-coinbase-5188428

Good morning! Remember that quadratic formula you were forced to memorize in high school? It's ok, most people don't either. But finally you can start to see why it may have ben important. With our voting and funding system geared towards the rich and powerful, this little farmer's formula is the key to democratizing voting and funding of public goods and I'm going to try to mansplain it for you. Gitcoin Grants is also using this formula to help fund public goods as well.

Sources:

https://gitcoin.co/

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-quadratic-voting-shaan-ray-mba/

https://thedefiant.io/gitcoin-quadratic-funding/

https://wtfisqf.com/?grant=1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1&grant=10&grant=5,5&grant=10&match=1000

https://ethresear.ch/t/pairwise-coordination-subsidies-a-new-quadratic-funding-design/5553

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1809.06421.pdf

Good morning! This morning I play a couple of clips from Crypto Sapiens podcast in Humpty's interview with the founders of Genomes DAO. Like Ancestry.com and 23andme.com, GenomesDAO provides a service to analyze your genetic information to give you fun, useful, and interesting data about yourself through your genome data. However, unlike the other two, GenomesDAO give you a vault all your own to store and provide access to whoever you want to have that data. You can earn GENE token through the allowance of access or you can keep it all to yourself. Your data, your choice! I highly recommend going to Crypto Sapiens Podcast and listening to the whole episode yourself!

Sources:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6MqYn64m0e4n1owXVkjhfw

https://genomes.io/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/02/social-media-giants-monetise-anger-and-trolling-is-the-result-a-crackdown-is-welcome

https://nft.genomes.io/

Good morning! This morning I start off with a thread by Leah Wald, who makes some comparisons between the bear market cycle of 2018 and the current market dip we are in. Alot of this comparison made me want to take it way back to 1993 and go back to the original reason we are all here in this crypto space. This space started because of people's desire for privacy in this digital space. As technology develops and becomes more powerful, so do the powers that govern. The cypherpunks worked hard to try to develop technology to preserve the freedoms and privacy of every individual in this digitization of reality. NFT's and the metaverse are cool and all, but what good is it if we have zero privacy or freedom. So I did a reading of The Cypherpunk Manifesto.

Sources:

https://twitter.com/LeahWald/status/1482019640960290821

https://academy.bit2me.com/en/who-is-eric-hughes/

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/cypherpunk-manifesto/

https://twitter.com/token3conomy/status/1481868075343523850/photo/1

Good morning! This morning I decided to poke around in the Oasis. I have been hearing people mention to me that I should check out Oasis. So I decided to go ahead an give it a gander this morning and see what's up with it. Oasis features a modular style proof-of-stake blockchain that has TEE's (trusted execution environment) built in for privacy. In this increasingly surveilled metaverse that is developing around us, I am all for more privacy. I also like the modular aspect of the blockchain using Paratime layers for execution. Oasis seems to have some growing to do, but it looks good so far!

Sources:

https://oasisprotocol.org/

https://oasismonitor.com/

https://docs.oasis.dev/oasis-network-primer/#scalable-private-defi

https://medium.com/oasis-protocol-project/oasis-mainnet-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-privacy-and-scalability-25379d152122

https://yuzu-swap.com/

https://www.personal.ai/

https://medium.com/oasis-protocol-project/defi-is-coming-to-oasis-introducing-yuzuswap-the-1st-decentralized-exchange-on-oasis-the-50k-68193e63f31f

https://wormholebridge.com/

Good morning! I tried to do a video focusing on the Boba Network, but I also ended up spending lots of time talking about the basics of layer 1's a nd layer 2's and the scalability trilemma. In the last third of the video, I actually get around to talking about OMG Network, ENYA.ai, and Boba Network. Boba seems to have a good solution and a good ecosystem.

Sources:

https://cointelegraph.com/blockchain-for-beginners/a-beginners-guide-to-understanding-the-layers-of-blockchain-technology

https://omg.network/

https://boba.network/

https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-integrates-with-plasma-sidechain-to-reduce-load-on-ethereum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-tKyhA4QzE

https://www.enya.ai/

Good morning! This morning I read an article that talks about French Bank Societe Generale using DeFi protocol MakerDAO to take out a $20 million loan. This may not seem like much for a bank, but the fact that a TradFi bank is using DeFi for the first time is huge. It is also the first time real world assets, such as houses are put on-chain in an official capacity. It will be interesting to see what happens after this once this seal has been broken.

Sources:

https://medium.com/bankless-dao/brick-and-mortar-banks-begin-to-build-on-chain-de0e78413fc2

https://makerdao.com/

https://www.societegenerale.com/en

https://www.coingecko.com/en

https://coinpaprika.com/